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Japanese sound artist, sawako's 5th album "nu.it" is concise, quiet, yet incredibly rich like a Debussy in the digital world. The album title "nu.it" is inspired by the French word "nuit (night)." The great drone and sound scape for the meditative night with the waves of piano, bird song and electronic sound. Using the digital technology and field recording sound, sawako draws the new form of reality of your inner mind in between sleep and awake. The album includes "pass.age" which was used in Patagonia's documentary film "Treeline."

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Apple Music • New Age Top Albums • Estonia • TOP 20 • 18 Jan 2023 Apple Music • New Age Top Albums • Turkey • TOP 25 • 30 Dec 2022 Apple Music • New Age Top Albums • Chile • TOP 28 • 27 Jun 2022 Apple Music • New Age Top Albums • New Zealand • TOP 38 • 18 Jan 2023 Apple Music • New Age Top Albums • Hong Kong • TOP 62 • 27 Jan 2022 Apple Music • New Age Top Albums • Sweden • TOP 102 • 18 Jan 2023 Apple Music • New Age Top Albums • Singapore • TOP 102 • 18 Oct 2022 Apple Music • New Age Top Albums • Denmark • TOP 107 • 8 Apr 2024 Apple Music • New Age Top Albums • Poland • TOP 117 • 4 Mar 2022 Apple Music • New Age Top Albums • Taiwan • TOP 134 • 1 Sep 2021 Apple Music • New Age Top Albums • Korea, Republic of • TOP 165 • 22 Jun 2023 Apple Music • New Age Top Albums • Japan • TOP 167 • 14 Dec 2021

Artist Profile

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    Sawako is a sound sculptor, a timeline-based artist and a signal alchemist in the urban life environment who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. Once through the processor named Sawako, subtle fragments in everyday life float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. Sawako released her albums from 12k (USA), and/OAR (USA), BASKARU (France) and Anticipate (USA). She had collaborated or improvised with Taylor Deupree, asuna, HYPO, Ryan Francesconi, Toshimaru Nakamura, Ken Ikeda, Andrew Deutsch, Jacob Kirkegaard, Kenneth Kirschner, Daisuke Miyatani, Kyoka, Radiosonde, Haruka Nakamura, Ryuichi Sakamoto, among others. Her unique sonic world has been called "post romantic sound" by Boston's Weekly Dig. She has performed internationally as an audio and/or visual artist in MUTEK (Canada): Warm Up at P.S.1, Armory Show, Diapason, Le Poisson Rouge, Tonic, Diapason, Monkey Town, Issue Project Room, Roulette, World Financial Center Winter Garden, Starbucks Salon, BAP Festival (NYC); Corcoran Gallery (Washington DC); UCLA Hammer Museum (LA); OFFF Festival (Lisbon); MACBA, CosmoCaixa, Sonar Festival (Spain); Glade Festival, Resonance FM, ICA (UK); Batofar (Paris); m12(Berlin); Offsite, Super Delux, Bullets, gift_lab, Vacant, Apple Store (Japan). Her works are mentioned in "Listening through the Noise : The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music" (Oxford University Press) by Joanna Demers, "Handmade Electronic Music" (Routledge) by Nicolas Collins and "Transmission Arts : Artists and Airwaves" (PAJ Pablications) by Galen Joseph-Hunter and others. Her work has been featured in The Wire (UK), Blow Up (Italy), Improvised Music from Japan (Japan), NY Art (US), e/i magazine (US), DEBUG (Germany), Go MAG (Spain), GAFFA (Denmark) among others. Sawako obtained a Master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University where she studied Networked Expression, Physical Computing, Post Linear Narrative and Audio/Visual Studies. She received a B.A. from Environmental Information Department at Keio University, SFC, Japan. Born in Nagoya, Japan, studying the classical piano over 10 years and Japanese Nohgaku Theatre for 6 years when she was a child.

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